1. STAAR Review
The 13 Colonies

2. Why did the Europeans explore?
God – spread religion
Glory – fame
Gold – wealth
North America – Spanish, French, English, and Dutch

3. Jamestown
Founded in 1607
1st permanent English colony (remember Roanoke failed)
Tobacco saved the colony
Elected assembly known as the House of Burgesses

4. Plymouth Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620
Escaping religious persecution in England
Wrote the Mayflower Compact on their boat – promised to work together for government

5. 13 Colonies
Plymouth Colony
Jamestown Colony

6. 13 Colonies New England Colonies
Land was rocky and hard to farm with forests
Weather – short growing season & long winters
Economics – shipping & trading
Reason founded –Religious Freedom
13 Colonies

7. 13 Colonies Middle Colonies Land – fertile
Weather - good growing season – winter not too bad
Economics – shipping and small farms (breadbasket colonies)
Reason founded –Religious Freedom –
13 Colonies

8. 13 Colonies Southern Colonies Land – fertile
Weather -Mild Winters and good growing seasons
Economics – Agriculture – cash crops
Reason founded – economic

9. Foundations of Representative Government
Magna Carta – 1215 English Document
Mayflower Compact – 1620
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut – 1st written constitution in North America
Virginia House of Burgesses
English Bill of Rights – 1689 English Document

10. The Great Awakening
Ministers emphasized the importance of religious feelings
Colonists were told to study the Bible for themselves
Emphasized people’s equality in the eyes of God

11. They took fish, furs, and fruit to England and Europe to trade for manufactured goods. These colonial merchant ships followed many different trading routes. Some went directly to England and back.

12. Others followed routes called the triangular trade because the routes formed a triangle.

13. The ships brought sugar and molasses from the West Indies to the New England colonies.

14. In New England, the molasses would be made into rum
In New England, the molasses would be made into rum. Next, the rum and other goods were shipped to West Africa and traded for slaves.

15. On the final leg of the route, known as the Middle Passage, the enslaved Africans were taken to the West Indies where they were sold to plantations.

16. Mercantilism

17. Mercantilism What the economy of the British colonies was based on
Parliament passed laws controlling the trade of the colonies in order to benefit the “Mother Country”.
This unequal trade increased the wealth of the mother country

18. Salutary Neglect The term means benefitting from not enforcing laws.
By not forcing its American colonies to follow all parliamentary laws, Britain allowed America to remain attractive to new immigrants and to prosper economically through lax regulation of trade.
It was only when Britain moved away from self- government and toward new regulations and taxes that the colonists became increasingly dissatisfied with British rule.

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